That’s the partial summary of a football season that will end with Pac-12 teams playing in two New Year’s Six games, while the conference misses the College Football Playoff semifinals for the second time in three years. Going into the bowl season, a review of 2017:
Late in the third quarter of a Sunday game during the season’s opening weekend, a lot of UCLA fans wanted coach Jim Mora to be fired. And then quarterback Josh Rosen rallied the Bruins from 27 points down to beat Texas A&M 45-44. Mora eventually would be fired, anyway.
The conference’s missing the CFP field is partly traced to two Friday road games: USC’s 30-27 loss at Washington State in September and Washington’s 30-22 defeat at Stanford in November.